Dec 13, 2012 (SmarTrend(R) News Watch via COMTEX) --
Below are the three companies in the Property & Casualty Insurance industry with the highest debt to asset ratios. The Debt/Asset ratio shows the proportion of a company's assets that are financed through debt. If the ratio is greater than one, most of the company's assets are financed through debt.Ambac Financial ranks highest with a a debt to asset ratio of 0.56. Affirmative Insurance Holdings is next with a a debt to asset ratio of 0.50. Infinity Property & Casualty ranks third highest with a a debt to asset ratio of 0.20.

First Acceptance follows with a a debt to asset ratio of 0.16, and Kingsway Financial Services rounds out the top five with a a debt to asset ratio of 0.14.

SmarTrend recommended that its subscribers protect gains by selling shares of Kingsway Financial Services on November 9th, 2012 by issuing a Downtrend alert when the shares were trading at $2.92. Since that call, shares of Kingsway Financial Services have fallen 4.5%. We are now looking for when a new Uptrend will commence and will alert SmarTrend subscribers in real time.

Write to Chip Brian at cbrian@mysmartrend.com
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